Aino Kukk (née Prits, 10 September 1930 in

Raasiku Parish Raasiku Parish ( et, Raasiku vald) in Harju County is located in the south-eastern direction from the city of Tallinn. The main road leading through the parish is Jüri - Aruküla - Raasiku - Jägala road. The Tallinn - Tapa Railway goes through ...

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

– 7 November 2006) was an Estonian chess player, who won the Estonian Women's Chess Championship in 1955.

Biography

In 1950 graduated from

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

. After

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

Aino Kukk was one of the strongest women chess players in Estonia. Almost 30 times participated in Estonian Chess Championships for women, where she has won gold (1955), 2 silver (1953, 1968) and bronze (1952) medals. Four times won Estonian Sports Association «Jõud» Chess Championships for women. From 1959 to 1992 she worked in the Estonian Institute of industrial projects «Eesti Tööstusprojekt» - at first as laboratory assistant, later as chief engineer.KUKK, AINO
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References

1930 births 2006 deaths Estonian chess players Estonian female chess players Soviet chess players Soviet female chess players People from Raasiku Parish 20th-century chess players {{Estonia-chess-bio-stub